I have always loved to cook, but I had let it slide in the last few years. I am now pregnant, and have rediscovered the kitchen! We have been experimenting with pressure cooking and canning. My nesting faze has lasted for the last 4 months. We have so many new bobells for the kitchen: bread machine, 23 liter pressure cooker/canner, convection rotisserie toaster oven.... Anything that makes my husband rave on and on in French C'est bon, c'est tellement bon, c'est magnifique! That means any recipe we have found here and tried! We keep changing ours! Pressure canning Leek and pumpkin soup, Boston Baked Beans, Habitant Pea Soup, Meat sauce, applesauce, apple jelly.... Anything taken from this site with 5 star rating. When I was 17, I did not know the difference between cooking wine and wine vinegar. I was making a romantic dinner, and my mother had laid out all the ingredients on my kitchen counter for me. For some reason, the wine vinegar was on the counter, and not the wine. I added 1/2 cup of the vinegar to the sauce. I burnt the garlic toast and somehow managed to botch the cesear salad (must have been because I was in total panic mode at that point). I must have done something right though: I ended up living with that guy for 6 years!